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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
82 pages, Paperback
First published August 5, 2015
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November 11, 2022
Nov 11, 1105am ~~ Well, this book surprised the heck out of me. Not for any amazing information, but because the edition I had chosen from the GR database showed almost 400 pages and the actual edition at Project Gutenberg finished up after page 62, with a few pages of notes after that. I had not peeked before starting to read, so I had no idea.
I investigated the database a little more thoroughly and changed my edition to match the PG book. And I will try to be more careful in the future!
There are only two chapters to this book: one titled Coaching and the other titled Tandem. Each one is filled with tales from old sporting accounts of races between mail coaches, and neither was all that interesting. As a matter of fact I was skimming fairly soon and thinking how if things did not start looking up I would DNF, and that was when I came to the end of the book.
I wonder where in the world those almost 400 pages in some of the GR editions came from?!
Well, anyway, the illustrations were absolutely lovely, they were the best part of the book.
Oh, and apparently back in 1807 young men could get kicked out of Cambridge for driving tandem (that is where you drive two horses but they are in front of each other and not side by side). This must have been the wild and crazy hot rod vehicle of the day!
Note ~~ I just saw that the title here claims to be Coaching Days Ways but the actual title is Coaching Days & Ways. Just saying.
I investigated the database a little more thoroughly and changed my edition to match the PG book. And I will try to be more careful in the future!
There are only two chapters to this book: one titled Coaching and the other titled Tandem. Each one is filled with tales from old sporting accounts of races between mail coaches, and neither was all that interesting. As a matter of fact I was skimming fairly soon and thinking how if things did not start looking up I would DNF, and that was when I came to the end of the book.
I wonder where in the world those almost 400 pages in some of the GR editions came from?!
Well, anyway, the illustrations were absolutely lovely, they were the best part of the book.
Oh, and apparently back in 1807 young men could get kicked out of Cambridge for driving tandem (that is where you drive two horses but they are in front of each other and not side by side). This must have been the wild and crazy hot rod vehicle of the day!
Note ~~ I just saw that the title here claims to be Coaching Days Ways but the actual title is Coaching Days & Ways. Just saying.
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